Princess
Juliana International Airport (Saint Martin)
Princess
Juliana International Airport serves Saint Maarten, part of the island of Saint
Martin, Netherlands. This is the second busiest airport in the Eastern
Caribbean. The airport is famous for its short runway - only 2180 meters / 7152
ft, which is barely enough for heavy jets. Therefore, the planes approached the
island to land, flying very low, just above the Maho Beach. Photos countless
big jets flying at 10-20 ft m/30-60 for tourists relax on the beach have been
dismissed as fake photos many times, but still real. For this reason it also
has become a favorite for planespotters. Despite the difficulty in landing,
there is no record of major aviation incidents at the airport.
Airport (Saba)
Juancho E.
Yrausquin Airport is the airport which is on the Caribbean island of Saba,
Antilles, Netherlands. It is well known among experienced fliers for the way in
which the plane should land or take off from the airport.Yrausquin Airport covers a relatively large part of the small island of Saba. Some
aviation experts generally argue that the airport is one of the most dangerous
in the world, despite the fact that no major tragedies have occurred at the
facility. The only airport runway is marked with X at each end, to indicate to
commercial pilots that the airport was closed to commercial flights. The danger arises from the physical position of the airport. It is flanked on
one side by high hills, and on the other side and at both ends of the runway by
cliffs dropping into the sea. This creates the possibility that an airplane
might overshoot, the runway on landing or takeoff and end up at sea or on
cliffs.
COURCHEVEL (France)
Courchevel
is the name of a ski area located in the French Alps, the largest ski area in
the world. The airport has a certain level of deterioration in the airline
industry, with a relatively short runway, with a length of 525 m (1722 ft) and
a gradient of 18.5%. Very short where you have landed on a strip tends to slow
down and take-off on the decline to pick up sufficient speed. Who are landed here? Well, Pierce Brosnan ever landed here. This is the airport
that is used in the opening movie Tomorrow Never Dies. During our lives,
private plane, helicopter, or charter are the only way to go, and your pilot
will require some serious training before he was allowed to land at CVF.
Gustaf III Airport (St. Bart)
Gustaf III
Airport also known as Saint Barthélemy Airport is the airport for public use
located in the village of St Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthelemy. Both
the airport and the island's main town of Gustavia are named for King Gustav
III of Sweden. Under the Swedish island acquired from France in 1785 (it sold
back to France in 1878). The airport serves small regional commercial aircraft
and charters. Most aircraft carry fewer than twenty passengers, such as the
Twin Otter, a common sight around Saint Barth and throughout the northern West
Indies. The short airstrip at the base of gentle slopes ends directly on the
beach. By the time the plane landed at a very steep cliff above the top of the
hill and roundabout aircraft departed at just above head sunbathers.
Barra International Airport (Barra)
Barra
Airport is the only airport in the world that has a runway on the beach. BRR is
situated in the coastal area Traigh Mhor, on Barra island, in the Outer
Hebrides, Scotland. If you want to fly commercially here, will get a schedule
from British Airways, where perbangan to Barra from Glasgow and Benbecula. The airport is literally washed away by the waves once a day, and if you arrive
on the afternoon flight, you might see some cars in the parking lot with their
lights, which provide some pilot visibility adds, because naturally lit
airport. Needless to say you may not want to hang out at Barra Airport beach,
unless you are a aviation junkie, in which case Barra Airport has a proven system
that stupid, as a sign that reads:. "Keep off the beach. When the windsock
is flying and the airport is active. "
Madeira Airport (Madeira)
Madeira
Airport also known as Funchal Airport and Santa Catarina Airport, is an
international airport located near Funchal, Madeira. Airport air traffic
control nationally and internationally from the island of Madeira. The airport was once known for its short runway which, surrounded by high
mountains and sea, made a hard landing for even the most experienced pilots. The
original runway length is only 1,400 meters, but was extended 400 meters,
following an incident TAP Portugal Flight 425 in 1977 and later rebuilt in
2003, almost double the size of the runway, building it over the ocean. Rather
than using a landfill, the extension was built on a series of 180 columns, each
about 70 m height. For the enlargement of the new runway Funchal Airport has won the Outstanding
Structures Award, given by the International Association for Bridge and
Structural Engineering (IABSE). Outstanding Structures Award is considered the
"Oscar" for engineering structures in Portugal
Lukla Airport (Nepal)
A huge
mountain on one end, down a thousand feet on the other. And at an altitude of
2900 meters, so you do not really have full power. Lukla Airport is a small airport in the town of Lukla in eastern Nepal. In
January 2008, the government of Nepal announced that the airport will be
changed to honor Sir Edmund Hillary [1], the first person to summit Mount
Everest, who died on January 11, 2008. The airport is quite popular as a place
where most people begin their journey to climb Mount Everest.
